The five-year, $2.95 million R01 award, one of the NIH’s most competitive and sought-after grant mechanisms, will support a ...

In July 2021, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presentation obtained by the press noted that the delta variant of COVID-19 “is as transmissible as chickenpox.” As some researchers have ...

“Listen, if there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us is that life will not be contained. Life breaks free. It expands to new territories, and it crashes through barriers painfully, ...

Trees are often heralded as the heroes of environmental mitigation. They remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which slows the pace of climate change, and sequester nutrients such as nitrogen, ...

In many organisms, individuals that produce more offspring tend to have shorter life spans than individuals who aren't as productive. But how does this happen? Biologists examining data from an ...

Fundamental discoveries about genetics, development, disease and more will be fueled for generations to come by a $500,000 gift that creates an endowment providing permanent support for the one of the ...

Roger Innes strives to understand the genetic and biochemical basis of disease resistance in plants. He studies how plants can recognize pathogens and actively respond. Innes is a Distinguished ...

A sophomore in the Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington was awarded the coveted Goldwater scholarship, given to students who plan to pursue research careers in science, math or ...

Kayla Simanek, a postdoctoral fellow in the van Kessel lab in the Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington, received the prestigious Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship. Since ...

An analysis of a global dataset of collected and observed bees shows that fewer species are being found in most recent decades. Although the word “bee” evokes in most people the image of the ...

Matthew Hahn and Malcolm Winkler, both professors of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Biology, have been appointed as distinguished professors—IU's highest academic title for ...

Lesley Weaver discussed becoming a researcher, her views on science, and more in an interview for Current Biology's Q & A feature. Weaver is an assistant professor in Indiana University College of ...